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I've never been to an event like Decadence. I've been under the impression that going to these events without drinking, doing drugs or having sex is kind of like going to the Great Barrier Reef when you don't swim. I do enjoy dancing though. If cosplay was involved I would do it.

Is there a point at which one becomes too old to be at these kind of events without receiving odd looks? I've recently been reminded that I'm old. I got my first AARP invitation last month. The automated check out at the grocery keeps asking me of I qualify for a over 60 discount. My trainer found out I'm 20 years older than he is and said "It's like I'm training my dad!"

Yes. After the age of 37 one looks pathetic. Unfortunately I've had a hard time getting Guilhermina to hang up her chaps.

So, I have a little more time, before I look pitiful. Yes! I better get on it.

I have been invited to go, since I was just a young queerling. Didn't have the money to go back then. I think it would be interesting, and maybe even fun. I always heard tales of sex in the streets and on pool tables--using cue sticks and even the balls. Not sure how exaggerated those tales were. Oh, unsuspecting families walking through, not knowing what the event was, and seeing guys being sucked off in the streets.

Trey are you gonna lay in a urinal and get pissed on again this year? (that was you right?)

I've always admired Decadence from afar. It's on my bucket list.

-W

You wish.

Decadence is just what you make of it. Yes there is a little raunchiness going on in the streets but if you avoid the leather bars you can just enjoy the fact that there are a million gay men piled into the French quarter.

Also there are men far older than 37 at decadence. I would say the average age is 40

Decadence is just what you make of it. Yes there is a little raunchiness going on in the streets but if you avoid the leather bars you can just enjoy the fact that there are a million gay men piled into the French quarter.

Also there are men far older than 37 at decadence. I would say the average age is 40

Oops, I looked up Southern Decadence and it is not the scene I thought it was. Looks like fun.

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

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Seems like I'm the only who partakes in this festivity from the forums.

Don't forget to disclose, when you are dis-clothing!

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"Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love." - Butch Hancock, Musician, The Flatlanders

A couple buddies used to go to Dec every year and they always were talking about this bar that had bathrooms where people would lay down in the troughs and get peed on...I mean I've been peed on before but certainly not willingly.

Am I the only homosexual that doesn't utilize the word "buddy"? When did this become acceptable? Or is this a regional thing? Where I come from it's something one names their Golden Retriever.

I graduated high school in the early '80's in Missouri. The saying at the time was: friends are friends, pals are pals, but buddies sleep together.

So that gives you region and timeline. Around that time, most golden retrievers I knew of were referred to as those d**m idiot dogs. The preferred breeds in hickville were blue-tick hounds and border collies.

I usually go and wanted to, lot of folks from Dallas will be there. I'm going to Augusta next week for Michael Brandon's inappropriate pool party, so i'm staying home in Dallas for a nice long, lazy weeken

Did a lot off Border Collies belong to Single Women or couples/pairs there of. ?

The border collies belong to old farmers who used them as work dogs.

In rural Missouri in the mid-60's there wasn't anything approximating LGBT relationships. The most scandalous thing in our neck of the woods was a certain 90+y.o. widow. She let her 50+y.o. handyman sleep in one of the empty bedrooms of her house rather than making him sleep in the bunkhouse 'like a proper widow would'. (whooboy)

Speaking of scandals, there also was a lot of talk the time a neighbor of ours hung her 'unmentionables' on her clotheslines out in front of 'god and everyone' instead of hiding them inside a bedsheet. And she didn't just hang up one pair. It was a whole line of grannypanties. Lemme tell you, the way the ol' hens clucked, you'd have thought she'd run her bra up the flagpole at the post office.

So what you're encountering is the difference between the VERY republican and conservative state government, and the slightly less conservative government of New Orleans.

New Orleans loves Decadence because the monetary value of it is outrageous, it's the same reason they want gay honeymoons I would presume. The city is probably one of the most gay friendly cities you will find. Don't judge it by the state it just happens to be in

On a totally unrelated note, I had to buy new frames and I need assistance in figuring out how to switch out the lenses. Thanks to having a disagreement with the shed door, The frame broke. The lenses are still fine and I will need help. Thankfully, I saved several hundred dollars by not needing new lenses.

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